Agile Method: General Overview

The Agile method is a team management method for development teams (but it can be adapted to other fields such as marketing) that focuses on the team’s adaptability and responsiveness to customer requests.

Note: This post was translated from french with the help of AI. The original post was written with the knowledge of a younger me.

The method we use is a variation of the Agile method called Scrum. This method takes its name from the team’s daily meetings, which are compared to a rugby scrum.

How does it work?

In practice, the project is broken down into a set of tasks (called stories) and these stories are spread over recurring time periods (called “ Sprints”).

The idea is to involve project clients at regular intervals by working iteratively.

A Sprint passes, the client sees the completed work and decides whether to make changes or continue the project, another Sprint is then formed. And so on.

An Agile team usually has fewer than 7 people. Beyond that, the team loses efficiency.

In this series of articles, you will see how to formalize stories to meet the specific needs of the project and the client, and how to structure your Sprints to keep them effective.

The Agile method is often associated with DevOps techniques (and DevSecOps, MarketOps…) which we will cover in a future series.

Where do we start?

Well, let’s start at the beginning of a project, the Discovery & Framing phase.

Then, I invite you to read the articles on stories, the Ceremony, the Backlog, Scrum and Sprint to get an overview of this method.

After that, feel free to explore. The hyperlinks are there for that.